Bio

Soprano Bianca Hall holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Early
Music Vocal Performance from University of Southern California, Thornton School
of Music, where her secondary fields of emphasis were Theory and Analysis,
College Teaching, and Recorder Performance. She also holds both Master of Music
and Bachelor of Music degrees in vocal performance both from California State
University Fullerton, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Physiological Science
with an English minor from University of California, Los Angeles.

Biancajoined the ODU music faculty as Early Music Lecturer
in Fall 2015. In addition to directing the Madrigal Singers, she also directs
the Collegium Musicum ensemble, which is an instrumental ensemble that
specializes in playing music from 1750 and earlier in an historically informed
manner on replicas of historical instruments, like the baroque recorder, viola
da gamba, harpsichord, portative organ, and lute. Bianca also teaches courses
in Music History.

Beyond ODU, Bianca serves as voice faculty and assistant director of the San
Francisco Early Music Society's Medieval & Renaissance Workshop, performs
and records as a soloist and chamber singer throughout the country, and gives
lessons, coachings, and workshops for voice and recorder. She specializes in
the performance of seventeenth-century Italian florid singing and seventeenth-
and eighteenth-century English balladry and has presented scholarly papers on
both subjects both nationally and internationally.

Bianca is an active early music performer and has performed in various
festivals and concert series around the country, including the Boston and
Berkeley Early Music Festivals and Pittsburgh's Renaissance and Baroque Society
concert series. She performs regularly with various ensembles, including Tallis
Chapel Society, Bach Collegium San Diego, De Angelis Vocal Ensemble, Tesserae,
Ciaramella, and Pacific Bach Project. In addition to her ensemble work, Bianca
has performed the roles of Drusilla (Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea),
Cherubino (Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro) and Dido and the Sorceress
(Purcell's Dido and Aeneas). In the realm of contemporary music, she
performed in the L.A. Microfest in 2011 and at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles
as part of the Made in L.A. 2012 exhibition.

Bianca’s recordings include "D'ye Hear the News," music to
accompany 1688: The First Modern Revolution (Yale University Press, 2011),
"J.S. Bach: The Six Motets BWV 225-230" with Bach Collegium San Diego
(RMAP, 2010), and "Ancient Christmas Melodies" (Virlouise Records,
2006).

In her spare time,
she enjoys gardening, hiking, and backpacking. She also enjoys playing various historical
and folk instruments, including the cittern, banjo, and dulcimer, and dabbling
in folk instrument making.